Work outside Ego for Success

We work and accquire skills depending on our attitude and behaviour and feed our ego. Our designation and our work feeds our ego and makes us what we are and we take pride in what we do. We bask in the glory of our achievements and come to a point where our ego starts growing at a much faster rate than the work that we are doing and we hit a road block, unable to move any further. The whole world starts to appear to small and insignificant and we are eventually lost in our ego forever never to progress and grow again.

There are people and great people who are able to turn this situation around as they are able to work outside their egos. They go beyond the same and do great things and change the world. Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Hitler, Pol Pot all belong to this category and are at twodifferent ends of the spectrum.

Those with great and good intent grow and make a positive difference to the society in the field they work and they change the world for good and the others who change the world are those whobring destruction and death. The common thing in both sets is that they are able to look and grow outside the ego.

Ego stops our ability to look at things the way they are and make us short sighted and we are then influenced by the outcome.

To keep a check on the same one does not work with an outcome and should not focus on profit and loss or praise or critisism and just focus and concentrate on what one is doing. The idea of this wok is not to change the world and to change oneself and get better and better with what one is good at and the rest will automatically fall into place.

Success is not defined by how big our ego is it is defined by how big the work is and the quantum of work will increase in leaps and bound when it is not feeding the ego and is not self consuming. This is the parameter one should use to gadge the path one is walking on and the outcome will then change drastically.